Chapter Summaries

Locke created a stable plane within the Yulan Plane to shield its inhabitants from the destructive battles there, revealing power that made the Sovereigns believe he had reached the level of a Supreme God. As his family reflected on his achievements, Locke also noticed Bellute had never used the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns’ essence blood to create living beings.

• More than sixty Sovereigns sensed Locke’s aura as his enormous spatial hands appeared around the Yulan Plane, and they wondered whether he had surpassed their realm.
• After years of fighting had shattered much of the Yulan Continent, Locke opened a highly stable space where powerful gods could battle without harming the continent’s inhabitants.
• The Sovereigns realized that Locke’s new space rivaled the Supreme Planes, suggesting he could create one and had reached the level of a Supreme God.
• At Nether Mountain, Weil explained Locke’s power to Luo An, who considered forging his own path through bloodline creation because his cultivation had stalled.
• Locke noticed that Bellute had never used the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns’ essence blood to create living beings.

After Locke created a plane as stable as the Four Supreme Planes, Destiny Overlord Ov recognized the enormous gap between them and tried unsuccessfully to create a comparable one himself. Meanwhile, Gaia fled a deadly ambush in the Yulan Plane after her husband Flarino sacrificed himself, leaving the Four Divine Beast Family under relentless attack.

• Locke opened a plane over the Yulan Plane to contain battles involving High Gods and stronger fighters.
• Ov realized Locke’s power far exceeded his own and failed to create a plane stronger than an ordinary Material Plane.
• Flarino used Sovereign’s Might to protect Gaia and self-destructed against the five Asura Prefect Lords pursuing them.
• Gaia escaped while the five pursuers, badly injured, decided not to chase her because they feared Gaisreisen and Federman.
• The five discussed the Four Divine Beast Family’s strength and the danger posed by its Azure Dragon Clan members and Federman’s offensive Sovereign Artifact.

After an attack wiped out Gaia’s team in the Yulan Plane, Gaisreisen and Federman regrouped with her and prepared to defend the Four Divine Beast Family. Meanwhile, Bellute traveled to the Netherworld seeking Lord Locke, but Augusta tracked him down and pursued him.

• Gaia told Gaisreisen that the attackers had killed Flarino and all the clansmen with her, and she had memorized the five enemies’ soul auras.
• Federman joined his siblings, and Gaisreisen said the attackers were not from Hell before planning to gather their forces and fight back.
• Bellute traveled from the Yulan Plane to the Netherworld, hoping to secure Lord Locke’s protection in exchange for the three Sovereign Sparks.
• Augusta discovered Bellute on the Undead Sacred Mountain and entered the Netherworld through a Plane Teleportation Array.
• Bellute sensed Augusta’s Spiritual Sense lock onto him as he flew toward Nether Mountain.

Augusta caught Bellute leaving the Yulan Plane and threatened to kill him, but Bellute convinced him to seek Lord Locke’s judgment on the remaining Four Divine Beasts Lord Godheads. Augusta dragged Bellute to Nether Mountain, where Lord Locke used time reversal to reveal their encounter, leaving both Lord Gods shaken by his power.

• Augusta intercepted Bellute in the Netherworld and threatened to destroy his Divine Clone, but Bellute warned that Lord Locke might avenge him.
• Augusta restrained himself from killing Bellute, then crushed his hand and carried him at full speed toward Nether Mountain.
• Augusta and Bellute entered Lord Locke’s Sovereign Palace and explained why they had come; Augusta apologized for the disturbance caused by his flight.
• Lord Locke conjured a phantom image and reversed time to show Augusta catching Bellute and their conversation in the Netherworld.

Lord Locke awarded Bellute the three Sovereign Sparks left by the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns, and Bellute established the Graveyard of Gods as a contest for them. As the first opening approached, Gaisreisen led the Four Divine Beast Family toward the Dark Forest while suspecting that someone inside the family had helped arrange the ambush on Gaia’s group.

• Lord Locke ruled that Bellute deserved the three Sovereign Sparks but would receive no protection under the Lord God Pact from Augusta’s future retaliation, and both Bellute and Augusta accepted his decision.
• Bellute announced that the Graveyard of Gods would contain the three Sovereign Sparks, open once every thousand years for one hundred years, and first open ten years later.
• Deities from across the planes flew toward the Dark Forest to await Bellute and compete for the Sovereign Sparks.
• Gaisreisen led the remaining Four Divine Beast Family members toward the Dark Forest and promised Gaia that the family would investigate the five Asura Prefect Lords who had ambushed her group.
• Gaisreisen suspected that a family member had leaked information or been soul-enslaved, and resolved to keep the family’s plans from members he did not fully trust.

Gaisreisen brought the Four Divine Beast Family to the Dark Forest, where Gaia recognized the people who had attacked her but restrained her brothers from seeking revenge so the family could focus on the Sovereign Spark. Bellute watched the clan settle in and was willing to protect it only if it faced extinction, not to support a major battle.

• Gaisreisen weighed the family’s chances of recovering its standing by obtaining a Sovereign Spark or producing a Great Perfection expert as he led the clan toward the Dark Forest.
• Gaisreisen, Federman, and Gaia established a camp, prompting nearby Asura Prefect Lords to ready themselves when Gaia suddenly released her aura.
• Gaisreisen asked Gaia whether she had found the people who attacked her, and she stopped him from acting by reminding him that the family came first.
• Gaisreisen promised Gaia that he would avenge her husband, and the clan and surrounding Asura Prefect Lords withdrew their auras.
• Bellute approved of the family’s restraint but resolved to help only if it neared extinction, warning that he would stop it from starting a major battle in the Dark Forest.

Leisjing learned that Bellute had become a Sovereign and was asked by the Purple Thorn Sovereign to help the Four Divine Beast Family in the Yulan Plane. Before going, he traveled to Nether Mountain to ask Rena about Lord Locke’s plans and recalled the brutal ordeal he had endured in its third mist layer.

• The Purple Thorn Sovereign told Leisjing that Bellute had become a Sovereign and that experts had gathered in the Yulan Plane to compete for Sovereign Sparks.
• The Purple Thorn Sovereign asked Leisjing to secretly aid the Four Divine Beast Family because the Azure Dragon Lord God Reiding had once helped her parents.
• Leisjing agreed to help the family but decided to visit Nether Mountain first and ask Rena about Lord Locke’s intentions.
• Leisjing arrived at Nether Mountain and remembered how he and four companions had used ropes to cross its third mist layer.
• The mist’s hidden Eye of Hell trapped Leisjing and the others in nearly five hours of torture while they crossed the third layer.

Leisjing crossed Nether Mountain’s defenses with his Soul Defense Lord Artifact and Godhead defensive artifact, then reunited with Bamo, who had become a Great Perfection expert. Bamo told him that Locke had surpassed the Sovereign realm and brought him to Rena’s palace, where Rena would answer his questions about the Lord Godheads in the Yulan Plane.

• After enduring soul torture in the third layer of mist, Leisjing entered it again with a Soul Defense Lord Artifact and passed through unharmed.
• Leisjing crossed the lightning barrier using his Godhead defensive artifact and met Bamo on Nether Mountain.
• Bamo explained that he had become a Great Perfection expert and had begun comprehending the Law of Space.
• Leisjing asked what Locke thought about the Lord Godheads in the Yulan Plane, and Bamo said Locke had surpassed the Sovereign realm.
• Leisjing asked why Bamo was not competing for the Lord Godheads, and Bamo escorted him to Rena’s palace to have his questions answered.

Leisjing agreed to help the Four Divine Beast Family compete for the Sovereign Godheads after Rena explained why the struggle was unlikely to put him in danger. Years later, the Graveyard of Gods’ conflict ended with most challengers dead or departed, while Locke watched the Yulan Plane’s later upheavals and Bellute continued seeking native candidates for the Godheads.

• Leisjing told Rena that the Purple Thorn Sovereign had asked him to help the Four Divine Beast Family, and Rena explained the Light Overlord Augusta’s threat and Bellute’s reasons for offering the Sovereign Godheads.
• Rena assured Leisjing that Great Perfections could not become Sovereigns inside the Yulan Plane, easing his fears about joining the struggle.
• Leisjing left Nether Mountain looking forward to meeting old rivals and helping repay the favors owed by his absent father.
• The Graveyard of Gods opened three times, killing many challengers; Bayer abandoned the Sovereign Godhead, and the surviving experts eventually left the Yulan Plane.
• Locke watched Dellinger Kovot die and ensured his soul entered the Azure Dragon Ring as the Pu'ang Empire began to unravel.
• Bellute continued observing the Four Ultimate Warriors and hoped native Yulan Plane beings would claim the three Sovereign Godheads and help oppose Augusta.

After the Four Divine Beast Family lost most of its strength, the Eight Great Clans besieged its survivors at the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range. As both sides prepared for a final battle, Barbary concealed the Azure Wave Lord God's order to spare the family and let the fighting begin.

• Bellute recalled the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns' essence blood and used it in experiments that produced powerful magical beast races and the legend of the Four Ultimate Warriors.
• The Eight Great Clans drove the depleted Four Divine Beast Family back to the Sky Sacrifice Mountain Range after thousands of years of war.
• Barbary demanded that Gaisreisen and the other patriarchs kill themselves, but Gaisreisen rejected the offer and rallied more than five hundred thousand clansmen to fight to the death.
• Barbary remembered that the Azure Wave Lord God had instructed him to leave the Four Divine Beast Family a chance to survive, but he had used the surrender demand to satisfy that order while concealing his hatred.
• The patriarchs and Grand Elders of both sides flew forward as the final battle began.

The Eight Great Clans and the Four Divine Beast Family continued their bloody war, with Bru’s struggle against Ashkrov emerging as the key to victory. Bellute became Azure Prefecture’s new prefect lord and banned battles involving more than one hundred people, but neither side trusted the order to end the fighting.

• The patriarchs and clansmen of the Eight Great Clans and the Four Divine Beast Family fought across a vast battlefield, while Ashkrov’s advantage over Bru made their duel the conflict’s decisive point.
• Bellute’s Divine Clone came to Hell to repay the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns and protect their family when he could, then left to pursue a way to intervene without drawing Augusta’s attention.
• Bellute won one hundred consecutive Battle Arena matches, defeated Azure Prefecture’s former prefect lord, and declared that battles involving more than one hundred people were forbidden in Azure Prefecture.
• The Eight Great Clans and the Four Divine Beast Family ignored the new restriction because the Four Divine Beast Family feared that dividing into small groups would leave them vulnerable to being wiped out.
• The Eight Great Clans’ patriarchs agreed to keep weakening the Four Divine Beast Family’s clansmen before using Magic Battle Arrays to kill one of its Asuras, while Ashkrov described how Bru’s Sovereign’s Might kept him from being defeated.
• Senal raised the prefect lord’s warning, and the patriarchs learned that Bellute had given them ten years to end large-scale battles before he personally intervened.

Bellute’s identity as Azure Prefecture’s new prefect lord forced the Eight Great Clans to limit their attacks on the Four Divine Beast Family. Meanwhile, Ov demonstrated that he could reproduce the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns’ Innate Divine Abilities, and Ninisha sought an audience with Lord Locke.

• Saintnal learned that Azure Prefecture’s new prefect lord was Bellute, whose Godslayer ability made him a deadly threat to the Eight Great Clans.
• The Eight Great Clans agreed to keep their battles with the Four Divine Beast Family in Azure Prefecture to squads of no more than a hundred people, and Gaisreisen respected Bellute’s rules.
• Ov used the essence blood of the Four Divine Beasts Sovereigns to reproduce their Innate Divine Abilities, astonishing Augusta, but he said he still needed more blood and deeper understanding to fuse them.
• Augusta hoped Ov could master the Fusion Innate Divine Ability and help him challenge the Rule Overlords, while Ov called to him.
• Ninisha knelt before Lord Locke in his Sovereign Palace.

Locke sent Ninisha to the Yulan Plane to protect Dellinger Kovot, promising her a chance to become a Sovereign while explaining the difficulty of cultivating the Law of Time. As Locke monitored events in the Magic Universe and prepared for Linley's eventual rise, the next Plane Battlefield appeared.

• Locke told Ninisha that mastering the Law of Time was nearly impossible for her, then offered her another opportunity to become a Sovereign.
• Ninisha asked whether refining a Sovereign Godhead would hinder her cultivation of the Law of Time, and Locke assured her it would not.
• Ninisha accepted Locke's mission to protect Dellinger Kovot, and Locke sent her to the Yulan Plane with instructions to intervene only if Dellinger faced mortal danger.
• Locke explained that he was limiting his interference in Linley's fate and hoped to make himself more important to Linley by arranging Dellinger Kovot's protection.
• The Plane Battlefield appeared in the Spatial Turbulence, and the Sovereigns headed toward it.

The Sovereigns discussed the Light God Plane’s chance to secure its second ten-win streak and the forces assembled for its coming Plane War against the Water Element God Plane. Locke’s son Luo An then asked whether their lineage should send Sovereign Legions to support Levia’s side, leaving the decision to Locke.

• The Sovereigns recalled that the Light God Plane needed one more victory for its second ten-win streak, which would elevate its Sovereigns above those of other elements.
• A Sovereign estimated that Augusta’s coalition could bring at least sixteen Sovereign Legions, including forces from the Heaven Realm and the Wind Element God Plane.
• Another Sovereign noted that the Water Element God Plane could match that strength with support from Luo An, Locke’s lineage, and the Underworld.
• Locke’s Sovereign Palace received Luo An, who explained that Levia’s Water Element God Plane might suffer heavy losses against the Light God Plane.
• Luo An asked Locke whether their lineage should send Sovereign Legions to support the Water Element God Plane.

Luo An discussed his plan to help Levia in the coming Plane War with Locke, who assured him that his actions would not threaten their family and let him prepare forces in the Water Element God Plane. Meanwhile, Bellute sensed Ninisha in the Yulan Plane and wondered how another High God had appeared there.

• Locke explained to Luo An how strength shaped the Lord Gods’ order and why their parents’ power and status left Luo An free to act.
• Luo An decided to gather powerful members of his family’s Sovereign Legions in the Water Element God Plane to support Levia’s coming war against the Light God Plane.
• Locke reflected that moving his family’s forces to the Water Element God Plane would keep them from disturbing Linley’s future path in Hell or the Netherworld.
• Bellute sensed a magical beast of his bloodline in the Yulan Plane and discovered Ninisha living in seclusion in Hogg Town.
• Bellute questioned how Ninisha could have become a High God, since he had closely monitored the Yulan Plane’s god-level inhabitants.

Ninisha confronted Bellute after he attacked her, and the two clarified that his descendant Beibei had formed a contract with Linley. Ninisha identified herself as a Lightning Paragon under Lord Locke and explained that she had come to the Yulan Plane to protect someone on his orders.

• Bellute attacked Ninisha with his Spiritual Sense after suspecting she was behind his descendant’s contract with a human, but her Willpower protected her.
• Ninisha detected Bellute and flew to the Dark Forest to confront him.
• Bellute apologized and explained that he had attacked because he believed Ninisha had arranged the contract.
• Ninisha told Bellute that the Shadow Mouse who contracted with Linley was his descendant, and Bellute revealed that Beibei was a God-Devouring Rat.
• Ninisha introduced herself as a Lightning Paragon under Lord Locke and said she had come to protect someone, asking Bellute not to interfere.

Ninisha told Bellute that Lord Locke had assigned her to protect someone connected to Linley, and Bellute accepted the explanation. After confirming Bellute was using his Sovereign True Body, Ninisha challenged him to show her how far she remained from a Sovereign.

• Bellute took Ninisha's claim seriously because she said Lord Locke had sent her to the Yulan Plane.
• Ninisha said the person she protected was connected to Linley, and Bellute relaxed when he remembered Beibei had signed an equal contract with Linley.
• Ninisha asked Bellute whether he was using his Sovereign True Body, and Bellute confirmed it.
• Ninisha challenged Bellute to demonstrate the gap between her Great Perfection strength and a Sovereign's.

Ninisha challenged Bellute to test the gap between her strength and a Sovereign, using the Law of Time to briefly narrow their speed difference. After ending the spar and leaving to protect someone entrusted to her by Lord Locke, she left Bellute suspecting that Locke’s lineage advanced through the Law of Time or the Law of Space.

• Bellute agreed to spar with Ninisha, and her opening strike created a vast Spatial Rift before Lord Locke’s battle plane contained the destruction.
• Bellute’s Sovereign speed let him evade Ninisha’s attacks, but she used Time Acceleration on herself and Time Deceleration on him to reduce their speed gap.
• Bellute shattered Ninisha’s spear phantom and judged that her speed approached a Sovereign’s, though her attack and defense remained at the Paragon level.
• Ninisha ended the spar, acknowledged the gap between herself and a Sovereign, and said she still could not bear the Law of Time required to become a Celestial God.
• Ninisha apologized to Bellute, left to protect the person Lord Locke had entrusted to her, and flew toward the Finlay Kingdom.
• After Ninisha departed, Bellute concluded that Locke’s lineage might cultivate the Law of Time or the Law of Space to reach Sovereign strength.

Dellinger Kovot sacrificed his soul to save Linley from six Radiant Church deacons, but Ninisha rescued him and began restoring his soul under Lord Locke’s orders. Bellute recognized Dellinger Kovot as the person Ninisha had been protecting and wondered why Lord Locke considered him important.

• Bellute watched Linley and Beibei closely, expecting Linley to face danger while Ninisha continued to follow Lord Locke’s instructions.
• Dellinger Kovot appeared before the wounded Linley, said Linley would have to rely on himself, and burned his soul to cast Meteor Fall at the six Radiant Church deacons.
• The meteors destroyed the deacons and their surroundings while sparing Linley and Beibei, and Dellinger Kovot’s soul dissipated after telling Linley to live well.
• Ninisha caught Dellinger Kovot’s nearly vanished soul, used Soul Gold Beads to restore it, and told him she had saved him under the Sovereign’s orders.
• Ninisha reached the Yulan Plane’s Plane Teleportation Array and activated it with Sovereign’s Might, while Bellute recognized Dellinger Kovot and wondered why Lord Locke had sent a Paragon to save him.

Locke restored Dellinger Kovot’s soul and arranged for Ninisha to guide his cultivation in the Underworld. He then watched the Yulan Plane without interfering, considered Olivia’s potential, and reaffirmed his goal of surpassing the Hong Meng Controllers.

• Ninisha brought Dellinger Kovot’s soul through Locke’s spatial passage to the Sovereign Palace, where Locke reversed the effects of Soul Burning with the Law of Time.
• Locke told Dellinger Kovot that he could still become a god and assigned Ninisha to guide him on Nether Mountain, with a move to the Great Earth God Plane if he failed to advance within twenty years.
• After Ninisha and Dellinger Kovot left, Locke watched the Yulan Plane and decided not to interfere further in Linley’s fate, believing he could surpass Linley through his own cultivation.
• Locke observed Olivia’s rare Light-Dark Soul Variant and considered training him, but decided he lacked the time while pursuing mastery of the Spacetime Law and a path beyond Hong Meng Controller.